Mike, The singing world is more than NATS! :-) In fact, I specifically had in mind a personal experience in musical theater where, TG, it was because of a positive experience from 10 years previous, I was cast in a show! (Yes, I was told later by the music director.) Susan Nace susanna_co@j... susanna_co@j...
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 04:15:23 EDT Greypins@a... writes: > In a message dated 4/28/2001 11:24:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > snide76258@a... writes: > > << > This is also why NATS prevents teachers from taking sole credit for > a > student's success until the student has been with the teacher for > at > least 8 months. >> > > jeffrey, how on earth did they come up with eight months? > > as to sole credit, a teacher is never solely responsible for a > student's > progress. i can't imagine too many teachers being so quick to take > sole > blame for a student's failure. > > your points of fairness to you or the 'other' teacher are > concerns to > the teacher, not the student. yes, it would be sad if a singer > became > fabulously successful while working with a second unknown teacher > who really > helped that singer if the credit was then given to that singer's > primary > teacher, known to everyone as that singer's teacher. > > susan nace, you brought up the possibility of facing a former > teacher in > a competition. does NATS have in their ethics code a protection > against > teachers judging former students (i assume they must have something > against > teachers judging current students)? > > i realize, in the more competitive circles of voice teaching (i > think of > it as a hobby i get paid for), where people's livelihoods and > reputations are > on the line, fairness is an issue. i am sure it was NATS' > intention to > address this issue fairly when establishing its code of ethics. as > a former > union member (UAW), i know that the protection of workers against > unfair > bosses sometimes protects bad workers against fair bosses at the > expense of > the other workers. my point being the practice does not always > match the > intent. > > mike > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >
Susan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it to you when you've forgotten the words." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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